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Stephen Jones made two presentations in October: 1.) “Building Social Democracy: The First Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-21)” Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research Center (RUCARR), Malmö University, Sweden, October 26, 2020. 2).  “Georgia’s Pivotal Election” (A panel Discussion) Carnegie Foundation Europe, October 15, 2020.


And Neil Macfarlane co-edited a volume published by the University of Toronto Press this month (September). See Jones, S.F.,& Macfarlane, Neil. (2020) Georgia: from Autocracy to Democracy, Toronto, Canada: Univ. of Toronto Press. It includes a contribution from alum Natalie Sabanadze, the current Georgian ambassador to the EU and Luxembourg in Brussels. Jones also published with David Darchiashvili): Darchiashvili, D. & Jones, S.F. (2020, September 28) Georgia: warlords, generals, and politiciansOxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, OUP. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1891


“Social Democracy in Georgia,” Lecture to Georgian Association in the USA, July 22, 2020.


Stephen Jones “Recurrent Patterns in Georgian Politics: Culture, Geography and Institutions,” Keynote Speaker, 8th International Scientific Conference, “Space, Society, Politics” Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University,  25-27 June, 2020


Stephen Jones “The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918-1921: Europe Comes to Georgia,” Keynote Speaker for 10th Anniversary of WIP (Works in Progress) Series, (ARISC and CRRC), Tbilisi, May 13, 2020


"The Effects of the Moravian Compromise: Jurists and National Classification, 1906-1914," Jiří Malíř and Martin Rája, eds., JUDr. Václav Kounic a jeho doba [Václav Kounic, Esq., and His Times] (Brno: Matice moravská, 2009), 317-26.

"Austria vs. Hungary: Nationhood, Statehood, and Violence since 1867," Philipp Ther and Holm Sundhaussen, eds.,Nationalitätenkonflikte im 20. Jahrhundert. Ursachen von inter ethnischer Gewalt im europäischen Vergleich(Berlin: Harrassowitz, 2001), pp. 163-182.

"The Nationalization of East Central Europe: Ethnicism, Ethnicity, and Beyond," in Nancy Wingfield and Maria Bucur, eds., Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2001), pp. 112-52.


Lawlor, A. (2024). Foreword. In V. Woolf, Orlando (pp. xiii-xix). Penguin Random House.